Bachelor of Economics vs. Bachelor of Business

mitea-gatz.

Hello guys + girls,

I am currently struggling to think which degree is better:
B.A Economics
B.A Business

most of my friends just go for economics degree because they told me they have no difference as business degree

they told me that business degree is useless, the skill i learned from the degree is total useless

I am currently confused.
I am trying to go for Marketing + Finance
Minor in Interactive Arts and Design

so what do you guys think?

Steven

There is a difference as in what kind of courses you are going to take. If you know you want to go into marketing + finance, then your best possible option is to earn a business degree rather than an economics degree.

However, for those people that are unsure of what they want to take and want to have broader options open for them when they graduate, economics degree would be more suitable. For a business degree, one of the advantages is the amount of extra curricular activities/programs there are to help you network with the right people. Those contacts that you get are essential since some of them may be your potential employers or your business partners in the future.

Insatiable

I will take a lot of heat for this but I think economics is infinitely better than business. No offence if you're in business but there's a reason why I think so. Aside from the accounting courses, nothing in the business faculty is incomprehensible stuff that you can't learn anywhere else. Take for example marketing. Do I really need a degree to convince people to buy a particular product (what marketing essentially is)? No, I can do that if I am already creative without a business degree; alternatively, I can do this with a psychology degree. Or take consumer behaviour; wouldn't a psychology/sociology course/degree be more useful here? And with management or decision-making? An arts student can perform these tasks just as well as a business student.

Economics teaches you many formulas that may be confusing to you unless you have an economics degree or take economics classes. If you're doing a major in marketing and finance, you're much better off doing a major in economics and a minor in a social science.

Look at how useless many business courses are: apparently there's some course called Organizational Behaviour? Since when do we personify corporations and capture their "behaviours" in a psychological theory? The first time I heard the idea from a business major, I couldn't control my laughter. Corporations are not people!

As for networking, you can do that yourself. If you're a resourceful person, you don't need to worry about the things you'll be taught in business classes because you'll probably know them already. Nothing is so special about business that you can't learn it in another faculty. Nowadays, many corporations choose to hire arts students simply because they are more unconventional and creative (I've read so many articles in The Economist about this).

Go the economics route and don't look back.

For the record, I've taken a total of TWO business classes (I had to take them as third-year electives). I would choose to suffer a most painful death before taking a third.